Commentator Glenn Beck arrives for "Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World" gala in New York in this May 4, 2010 file photo (Reuters)

The Huffington Post is reporting that the MLB is receiving pressure to drop former Fox News host Glenn Beck from their programming due to his prior controversial comments. MLB Advanced Media, the digital rights arm of Major League Baseball, streams GBTV, where Beck touts “the truth lives here.”

The group protesting Beck and the MLB is called Americans United for Change and they launched a website called Strike Out Beck. The website features Beck’s most controversial remarks and fans can sign a petition pressuring the MLB to drop him. The group will also launch a Facebook ad campaign in big baseball towns like St. Louis, Detroit, Dallas, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia and Orlando.

To be honest, I’ve haven’t watched a single episode of Glenn Beck’s prior show on Fox. And I’ll be more than happy to skip his online show.

That being said, I think this launch to get Beck off online streaming is a waste of perfectly good energy. Why should Glenn Beck critics waste time fighting the people who chose to buy and listen to his programming? It’s not on a major network for goodness sake.

There are starving children in America and Africa. We have soldiers dying overseas everyday fighting in a war that I can’t comprehend. People are losing their homes and jobs, we have a morally corrupt society that transforms sex-tape “victims” into reality stars and a professional sports system in America that can’t seem to keep it together without having lockouts every 5-10 years.

It costs $9.95 a month to subscribe to Glenn Beck’s show and $99.95 for a yearly subscription. But the cost to skip Glenn Beck’s ranting is absolutely free.